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Handover authentication latency reduction using mobile edge computing and mobility patterns

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With the advancement in technology and the exponential growth of mobile devices, network traffic has increased manifold in cellular networks. Due to this reason, latency reduction has become a challenging issue for mobile devices. In order to achieve seamless connectivity and minimal disruption during movement, latency reduction is crucial in the handover authentication process. Handover authentication is a process in which the legitimacy of a mobile node is checked when it crosses the boundary of an access network. This paper proposes an efficient technique that utilizes mobility patterns of the mobile node and mobile Edge computing framework to reduce handover authentication latency. The key idea of the proposed technique is to categorize mobile nodes on the basis of their mobility patterns. We perform simulations to measure the networking latency. Besides, we use queuing model to measure the processing time of an authentication query at an Edge servers. The results show that the proposed approach reduces the handover authentication latency up to 54% in comparison with the existing approach.

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This work received support from the DataCloud project funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Number 101016835), Kärntner Fog 5G Playground project funded by Carinthian Agency for Investment Promotion and Public Shareholding, and Ernst Mach-Nachbetreuungsstipendium (Reference Number ICM-2017-08089) by the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education & Research (OeAD-GmbH).

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    Fatima Abdullah & Kashif Munir

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Abdullah, F., Kimovski, D., Prodan, R. et al. Handover authentication latency reduction using mobile edge computing and mobility patterns. Computing 103, 2667–2686 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-021-00969-z

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